Handcrafting a Les Paul style guitar. Using my tool set, and from researching similar projects that people have posted about on the internet, this is my attempt at building my first guitar.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

The maple top

I got a maple board 3/4 thickness from Crosscut Hardwoods.
I picked through and got a plain maple top with some burly, swirly, nice anomalies for $25.
For the first guitar, it beats getting a bookmatched top of flame for > $150. I actually have another half a maple board left that would be good for making some bolt on maple necks with rosewood fingerboards.

I'm not a fan of flame maple anyway. I like the original '59 look of the plain maple tops.

Here is a pic of the band sawed and joined maple top.









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2 comments:

abit.of.a.nerd said...

good luck with the build

im currently building a database of electrics 50's style might be worth a look when you come to finish.

www.vintageguitarlover.blogspot.com

i am sure its going to be fab

darren

RobJ said...

Hey thanks.
Nice page on the PAF you got over there. I plan on winding my own PAFs as well. I've wound a few single coils already.